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Portrait painting, American --- Portrait painting --- Portraiture --- Painting --- Figure painting --- American portrait painting --- Old Sturbridge Village --- OSV --- Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Mass. --- Wells Historical Museum --- New England --- Northeastern States --- Biography --- Portraits --- Peinture de portraits américaine --- Exhibitions. --- Expositions --- Nouvelle-Angleterre --- Biographies

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"This timely and eloquent book tells a new history of American art: how enslaved people mobilized portraiture for acts of defiance. Revisiting the origins of portrait painting in the United States, Jennifer Van Horn reveals how mythologies of whiteness and of nation building erased the aesthetic production of enslaved Americans of African descent and obscured the portrait's importance as a site of resistance. Moving from the wharves of colonial Rhode Island to antebellum Louisiana plantations to South Carolina townhouses during the Civil War, the book illuminates how enslaved people's relationships with portraits also shaped the trajectory of African American art post-emancipation. Van Horn asserts that Black creativity, subjecthood, viewership, and iconoclasm constituted instances of everyday rebellion against systemic oppression. Portraits of Resistance is not only a significant intervention in the fields of American art and history but also an important contribution to the reexamination of racial constructs on which American culture was built." --

Slavery in art --- Race in art --- Art and society --- Portraits, American --- African Americans in art --- Enslaved persons --- Race dans l'art --- Art et société --- Portraits américains --- Noirs américains dans l'art --- Black people in art --- Portrait painting, American --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- United States --- Esclavage dans l'art --- Peinture de portraits américaine --- Esclaves